On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 21:53 +0000, Quazie wrote: > I thought the whole point of a proposal competition was to distribute a > bunch of proposals without paying for them. Proposal competitions are > apparently useless - darn.
IIRC, the pending system worked rather differently when we invented proposal competitions. I'm starting to get the impression that basing an economy on proposal pending never works. Sometimes, distributing a proposal is part of a scam, and thus worth paying for / fighting over. However, the majority of proposals are intended to be "for the good of Agora" type things which give no benefit to the proposer over what they give to Agora as a whole. Asking people for payment for those seems backwards; rather, we should be /rewarding/ people for them. Proto: the pender of a proposal and the submitter must be different people. When a proposal is pended, the pender gains some fraction of the pend fee. (In my experience, preventing people from doing something for themselves has been the most reliable way of getting people to do it for each other.) -- ais523
